I60660: Margaret (ABT 1755

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Marriage(s):
Spouse: Mary PRESLEY (AFN: 1PQZ-G5) Marriage: Westmoreland Co, Va
Spouse: Sabra POLK (AFN: FQXS-9P) Marriage: 1705 Piney Ridge, Dorchester, Maryland
Spouse: Margaret TRIPLETT (AFN: BF30-DL)
Spouse: Mary HOPKINS (AFN: CS6L-NK)
Spouse: Mary THORNTON (AFN: FQXS-R4)

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CONFLICT in wife's surname.
Virkus 4, 691. Sarah Hamlin, wife of Colonel Francis Eppes. F.A. Virkus, Compendium of American Genealogy 7, 822.
Wife of Colonel Francis Eppes was Sarah (Royall?). or Sarah Kennon?

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"His second son, William Letcher, removed to Pittsylvania County, Va., where he married Elizabeth Perkins, daughter of Nicholas Perkins, who owned a considerable estate upon the Dan River. He finally settled in Patrick County, on the Ararat, a small stream which rises in the Blue Ridge and empties into the Yadkin River in North Carolina. The settlers in that part of Virginia were greatly annoyed by the Tories, who were numerous in North Carolina, and many encounters had taken place between them and the Whigs in that border land. William Letcher had served in a volunteer company from his county that had defeated the Tories at the battle of the Shallow Ford, on the Yadkin, a place which is still considered historic in that locality. This victory had inspired the Whigs with new courage; and William Letcher, prominent among them, had openly expressed his determination to resist the robberies and depredations of the Tories, and to hunt them down to the death. In the latter part of June, 1780, while Mrs. Letcher was in her house alone with her infant daughter, then only six weeks old, a stranger appeared at the door and inquired for Mr. Letcher. There was nothing unusual in his manner, and Mrs. Letcher replied that her husband would soon be at home. While she was speaking, Mr. Letcher entered and invited the stranger to be seated. To this courtesy the stranger (he was a Tory named Nichols) replied by presenting his gun and saying: "I demand you in his Majesty's name." Letcher seized the gun to get possession of it; the Tory fired, and Letcher fell mortally wounded. He survived a few moments, but never spoke. Nichols fled. The terror-stricken wife despatched messengers to her relatives on the Dan River, who came to her as soon as possible, and attended to the burial of her husband. Nichols committed other murders and many robberies, but was finally overtaken in the southern part of North Carolina, and expiated his crimes on the gallows. William Letcher was a man of fine appearance, and was greatly beloved and esteemed. His widow returned to her paternal home, with her little daughter Bethenia, and there remained until her second marriage with Colonel George Hairston, of Henry County, Va. In after years Bethenia Letcher married David Pannill, of Pittsylvania County, Va. Her daughter, Elizabeth Letcher Pannill, married Archibald Stuart."

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He was shot by the Tories through the window of his home.

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Dau of William Pinkethman. p. 142; 2W(1)271, ^[S861]

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The Virginia Regimental Historical Series, published by H.E. Howard, Inc. Lynchburg, VA. has the history of the 51st Va. Inf. Rgt, you'll find the sons of Dudley Sandidge and Melinda Smith.

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Marriage 1 Mary ??

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+2) Mrs. Ann Wale Hunton, widow of Thomas Hunton, Jan. 15, 1750, Lancaster Co VA b. bef. 1704, Lancaster Co VA

Anne Wale (Wife) b. 1702 in Lancaster Co, VA Marriage: 15 Jan 1750 in Lancaster Co., Virginia in Her Second Husband, His Second Wife

My Southern Family

Margaret

ABT 1755 - ____

ID Number: I60660

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Mary Hanna AVANT

30 Jun 1879 - 7 Oct 1937

ID Number: I25285

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William BOYDSTONE

1693 - 1761

ID Number: I88802

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Ann BRONAUGH

22 Dec 1794 - 17 Sep 1795

ID Number: I105138

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Susannah FORNESS

1770 - ____

ID Number: I34568

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Wilson GIBSON

ABT 1788 - ____

ID Number: I73264

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WILLIAM GREGORY

ABT 1597 - ABT Mar 1597

ID Number: I57343

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Sarah HAMLIN OR KENNON?

1689 - 1748

ID Number: I82547

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Col. William LETCHER

ABT 1750 - Jun 1780

ID Number: I50489

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Mary PINKETHMAN

ABT 1680 - ____

ID Number: I21964

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William Kirby ROWE

5 Mar 1899 - ____

ID Number: I2129

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Capt. Dudley SANDIDGE

28 Feb 1786 - 16 Dec 1861

ID Number: I4499

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George TAYLOR

ABT 1760 - ____

ID Number: I101817

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Ann WALE

ABT 1702 - ____

ID Number: I48060

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